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Angered bv Girl,i ^ *Chicagoan Wounds Self With PistolCEDAR LAKE — A Chicagoan who became irate because his girl would not return to Chicago with him shot himself m the chest Tuesday afternoon at Cedar Lake Lake County sheriff s deputies said Described today as in “fairly good condition at St Margaret Hospital, Hammond, is Gus Les-cans, 29. of 16 E 123rd St Hp shat himself once in the chest with a l’n calibre automatic pistol, deputies said He attempted to fire two other shots hut the gun failed to fire they added• • IDEPUTIES said Lessaris came to Cedar Lake to see Sharia Holmes, of 6412 S Hoyne St, Chicago. He asked her to return to Chicago,'but she refused.He then went to his car and fired the shot. Lessaris was re-.. moved from the car, in front of the ;Tony Sodo residence on the north lt;side of Cedar Lake, and taken to a? Cedar Lake physician before beingtransported to the Hammond hospital.
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Hammond Times
Hammond, Indiana, US
Wed, Aug 14, 1957
Page 15
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